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The tögrög or tugrik (Mongolian Cyrillic: төгрөг, Mongolian script: ᠲᠥᠭᠦᠷᠢᠭ, transcription: tögürig; sign: ₮; code: MNT) is the official currency of Mongolia. It was historically subdivided into 100 möngö (мөнгө / ᠮᠥᠩᠭᠦ). Currently, the lowest denomination in regular use is the 10-tögrög note, and ...
Bridgetown Bucks from PDX Currency Corp, Portland (Inactive) Cascadia Hour Exchange (1993) Portland [12] Columbia Community Exchange, Columbia County; Gorge Local Currency Cooperative, Hood River; Jefferson Rounds, Coos, Curry, Douglas, Klamath, Lake, Jackson, and Josephine counties; HOUR Exchange, [13] Corvallis; PDX Timebank, [14] Portland
The name Mongolia means the "Land of the Mongols" in Latin. The Mongolian word "Mongol" (монгол) is of uncertain etymology.Sükhbataar (1992) and de la Vaissière (2021) proposed it being a derivation from Mugulü, the 4th-century founder of the Rouran Khaganate, [13] first attested as the 'Mungu', [14] (Chinese: 蒙兀, Modern Chinese Měngwù, Middle Chinese Muwngu), [15] a branch of ...
Countries that have made legal agreements with the EU to use the euro: Andorra, Monaco, San Marino, Vatican City Countries that unilaterally use the euro: Montenegro , Kosovo Currencies pegged to the euro: Cape Verdean escudo , CFA franc , CFP franc , Comorian franc , Bulgarian lev , Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark , São Tomé and ...
In the 1930s, Buryat-Mongolia was one of the sites of Soviet studies aimed to disprove Nazi race theories. Among other things, Soviet physicians studied the "endurance and fatigue levels" of Russian, Buryat-Mongol, and Russian-Buryat-Mongol workers to prove that all three groups were equally able. [25]
The Denver metropolitan area was one of the early focal points for the new wave of Mongolian immigrants. [6] Other communities formed by recent Mongolian immigrants include ones in Chicago, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. [3] The largest Mongolian-American community in the United States is located in Los Angeles, California.
In December 1925, it began issuing Mongolia's own currency, the tögrög ('round'), in silver coins of one tögrög subdivided into möngö. It became the sole legal currency in 1928. The bank was transferred to the Mongolian government in 1935, and renamed the State Bank of the Mongolian People's Republic in 1954.
A joint Mongolian-Russian bank, called the "Trade and Industry Bank of Mongolia" (Bank of Mongolia) was opened on June 2, 1924 with head office in Urga and a single branch in Altanbulag. At that time, the bank's capital was 260000 yanchaan (the currency of the period). It operated with 22 employees, 18 of which were Russian specialists and 4 of ...